North County Times staff writer Gary Warth earned first-place
honors for his series on the ravages of methamphetamine addiction.
Former NCT reporter Noelle Ibrahim earned a top honor for her
account of a Palomar College professor wrongly accused of sexual
harassment.

Staffer Jim Trageser's layout for the "Zap Mamma" Preview cover
won top honors for feature layout design. Warth and Trageser also
took second- and third-place awards respectively for their
columns.

Times photographers earned three first-place awards. Waldo
Nilo's coverage of last October's fires called "Infernos Surge
Toward the Coast," took first place in the breaking news category.
Don Boomer's "A Mother's Kiss" topped the news category, and Jamie
Scott Lytle topped the ticket in the sports category with his
"Chargers Leap Over the Titans" photo.

NCT shooters swept the sports category. Boomer took second for
"Knockdown," and Hayne Palmour IV placed third for his photograph
of Tiger Woods celebrating a shot during the U.S. Open.

Illustrator Lucas Turnbloom collected five awards, including
three for work published by the North County Times.

NCT staff writer Ruth Marvin Webster earned four awards for
reporting in the arts, gardening, features, and in the
multicultural category for her story called Sounds of Islam.

Staff writer Barbara Henry, who covers Carlsbad, earned a second
place in the science and technology category for her story on the
geologic history of Mount Calavera and Morro Hill.

Video reporter Philip K. Ireland placed third in the integration
of media category for his coverage of the shark attack that killed
a Solana Beach swimmer.

The San Diego Union-Tribune earned 15 first-place awards, 12seconds and three thirds.
SignOnSanDiego.com
, theUnion-Tribune's Web site, won top honors for its overall newscoverage.

The hundreds of submissions in print, radio, television and the
Web were judged by press clubs in Houston, New Orleans, Syracuse,
Tulsa, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Milwaukee.